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1. Revealed! How Bloggers Make Money
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Ammanulah Emmanueli
I started blogging with no clue at all about making money using my blog in fact if you had asked me
back then if people make money online? I would look at you like are you for real. I did not know
anything about how bloggers make money. All I did was following my passion; that is writing, of course I
am not good at it but who cares anyway. I learned the secret after blogging for only three years, poor
me some guys have been on this thing for decades but again who cares. I make money from it and that
is what matters really.
After being at it for three years I now dedicate this post to bloggers and anyone interested in knowing
these little secret of how bloggers make money. The secret is quite simple and it doesn’t matter where
you are since the rules remain the same and the means of earning online remain unchanged till the day
aliens will begin reading blogs.
How Do Bloggers Make Money?
Generally this is how bloggers make money and involves the following two ways: 1. Selling Advertising
space on their blogs, 2. Affiliate Marketing.
1. Selling advertising space on their blogs
I don’t like using the word “Selling” but prefer “Promote” anyway we don’t cover the whole space on our
blogs with articles, there is some space left so why not allow some people with money use it and give
us their money. That is the first secret of how bloggers make money; by selling advertising space on
their blogs.
Adsense – Google is the internet giant in the
world and they have a program known as
Adsense where millionaires have been made
using this program. It pays the best of all Ad
services, Nothing and no one comes closer to
Adsense and is one of the best example of
how bloggers make money especially when it
comes to making money with your blog
through adverts.
Superlinks - You blog needs to have a
minimum traffic of 100,000 per month for you to be accepted in their program and ones you are
accepted then you will be the richest of bloggers since their minimum payout is $100
Adversal - Considered as the best Adsense alternative, if your Adsense application has not
been granted or you have been banned then Adversal is the best option for you. Adversal is
almost similar to Superlinks, however you need to have a monthly page-views of 50,000 to apply
and be accepted, however they are flexible if your results are on the increase they will accept
you.
Media.net - This one is brought to you by Bing and Yahoo and offers high paying ads, it will be a
problem if you have not so good traffic from the USA or UK. Their ads are similar to Adsense but
you have to request for an invite to get approved.
Chitika - This is one of the best alternatives to Adsense, it is not difficult to join and they always
try to serve ads relevant to your Niche, I suggest you try them out.

2. Infolinks - This program allows you to earn from the links in your text, known as text ads
infolinks will work if you have no space for ads then this one is for you. I knew of infolinks way
back but never tried it before, however on one of my niche blogs, infolinks does well and will
recommend it as an example of how bloggers make money online.
VigLink - Now this one is my favorite, their concept is different from the rest, it finds products in
your texts and turns them into affiliate links and you earn money when someone buys from your
product, imagine you write something about apple, it will automatically do the selling for you
without messing your design with ads.. Join Vigilink
SkimLinks - Works on the same principle as Viglink above and will turn your outbound links into
affiliate links where you will make money when someones performs an action based on your
link.
Buysellads - I know this guys who allow you to actually sell ad spaces on your site. They will
gather information about your blog and determine if you are eligible, then will open the gates to
thousands of advertisers to place their ads on your blog. The best thing about Buysellads is that
they pay you well upfront and they also manage everything in the back-end leaving you with only
blogging and making money. I found something about them online, I hope you enjoy it and learn
something from the video.
BuySellAds Video Promo
So if asked how bloggers make money online just tell them through advertising it is the easiest; and the
above are the methods they use or just show them this post with the following:

3. 2. Affiliate Marketing
First things first what is affiliate marketing?
According to Wikipedia:
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business
rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by
the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.
If I add my own words affiliate marketing is where big companies reward you for sending them
customers. So the question is how bloggers make money? generally you make money when
somebody buys their goods or services through a link they track known as an affiliate link. So you only
need a link if you don’t have a website/blog but if you do you can as well place adverts on your blog
and make money through them. I wont go into the details but will show you the type of affiliate
marketers you can make money from.
How Bloggers Make Money With Affiliate Marketing
The first step to making money as an affiliate is to find a Niche for your blog if your blog is one figure it
out, choose something you want or are interested in yourself, you need to have good knowledge of
what you will be selling to your readers. Generally these are some of the ways how bloggers make
money with affiliate marketing;
They do research on the available affiliate programs in their Niche, this helps them find different
products to sell in one place and receive payments through the same program. Rather than having
hundreds of programs they either choose one or two and will only use more if the product they want to
sell is not managed by the program they have joined. Some good examples of the best affiliate
Marketing programs include:
Sharesale - This is one of the biggest affiliate network with a range of
products you can find and promote on your blog
ClickBank – Note only allow Affiliates from specific countries
Commision Junction
Rapbank – I have used this network and the best part is they pay you
instantly via Paypal, though you need to have a paypal account registered
as a business which is not a hard thing to get.
Amazon Associates
Alternatively there are certain products that have their own affiliate programs managed by themselves;
Examples in this category of how bloggers make money include but not limited to:
LinkWorth

4. Bluehost
Shopify
Elegant Themes
You can sign up all of them and find products related to you Blogging Niche and sale them, so how do
you sell or promote these products?
You can find most of the products have links and banners you may choose to place the banners
on your blog as ad spaces or links on your sidebar etc
Write product reviews and have your affiliate links in them
Just write you normal posts and mention the products in your post giving your readers with links
to them
Recommend them on social media or in forums where you can link people who are in search of
these products
NOTE: The million dollar question is: How do bloggers make money with hosted blogs such as
blogger.com or wordpress.com? The answer is yes you can but as explained, you will not use Adverts
on wordpress.com since their policies do not allow that, leaving you with affiliate marketing options.
Final Thoughts on How Bloggers Make Money
Well that is all about how bloggers make money, to sum it up here are the ways we have discussed
above, Basically bloggers make money using two methods.
1. Advertisements
2. Affiliate Marketing
It has been said before and I will repeat it again, a good blogger who intends to build authority does not
focus his/her entire energy on making money using their blogs but rather on delivering valuable content
to his/her reader. So after knowing how bloggers make money, what will you do? That I live it to you.
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